The Life Narratives Make NoSense

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The locus of their lives is the like little circles around their decision points and they're ignoring the huge circles around everything else that like allowed them to get those those points. When I get a crit in anxieties the dizziness of freedom and I get a crystal that is that somebody else created right where there is a person there's my my twin on that on that universe it's funny that they go looking for the decisionsYeah right were made right rather than all of the other things that might have like they happened like chance chance meeting a chance encounter or you know being particularly late to a to an appointment or something they don't hear any of that but if that's that truly is how life

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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